Create a new posting and let\'s discuss these underlying concepts or Philosophy
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Create a new posting and let's discuss these underlying concepts or Philosophy of these Healing Systems which you will find among the assigned readings and the Week One team chart.
Do not list a lot of therapies or types of healing systems. Rather look for the shared concepts or philosophies that are shared among the healing systems.
Instead look at the Common shared concepts which are are core beliefs or foundations for the system.
For example you might discuss:
How is health/illness viewed?
What is the relationship between clients and practitioners?
How are therapies used?
How is the Human Being or client viewed?
In your discussion, one can share how these views are different from Conventional Medicine.
Respond by creating a new thread to this posting, here. (If you do not create a new thread, you will not recieve credit)
Remember you must also include a reference with this Discussion Thread for full credit.
Also for full credit, the discussion must be on philosophies; not therapies or healing systems.
Explanation / Answer
Philosophy of healing system:
Healing is looked in a broad perspective of one’s health –physical ,mental , spiritual and holistically
World health organization defines "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." So health wellness is when a persons is holistically stable . The healing comes when any one of the element needs mending. So, healing is defined as the process of making or becoming sound or healthy again.
Traditionally there were many healing system in the world ,ie: Native American medicine in America Ayurveda in India, Traditional Chinese medicine in china , Homeopathy from Germany . They are all dated back to approximately 1000- 500years back. But still these practices are followed in many parts of the country in spite of modern medicine and techie world
Beliefs /philosophies of healing:
The profession of nursing has been traditionally concerned with matters of healing, whereas historically the profession of medicine has been concerned with curing. In olden days the people with art of healing were called as healers, they used herbs to prepare concoction, salvage and cleaning of the wound and physical care was given to heal the wound and illness.
Traditional Chinese medicine:
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) from China is based on a concept of balanced qi (pronounced "chee"), or vital energy , Which is believed to flow throughout the body.
# Qi is regulates a person's - spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical balance
And it is influenced by the opposing forces of yin (negative energy) and yang (positive energy).
Disease is proposed to result from the flow of qi being disrupted and yin and yang becoming imbalanced.
Ayurveda from India believes in doshas
It believes that the doshas must be in equilibrium.
The digestive fire must be in a balanced state and the dhatus (tissues) and malas (wastes) must work in a normal way.
The sensory and motor organs and mind, atma must be also in a pleasant state. Such a person is called a healthy person or Swastha
Native American Medicine : NativeAmerican medicine is one of the oldest traditional medicine dated back to 4000 years without any script , before the English travellers to America. Native American Medicine believes man is part of nature and health is a matter of balance.
The natural world thrives with its complex web of interrelationships,
where it is honored, nurtured and kept in harmony.
Native American philosophy recognizes aspects of the natural world that cannot be seen by the eye or by technology, but which can be experienced directly and intuitively. Just as each human has an immeasurable inner life which powerfully influences well-being, so does nature include unseen but compelling forces which must be addressed and integrated for true balance to be achieved.
So it’s interesting to see the above context , the traditional medicine believes in the concept of some equilibrium of some internal force inside the body ,whether Chinese believed in Qi or Ayurveda believed in doshas or the Native American believed in the equilibrium of complex nature of internal and external environment of human . It sums up to the philosophy of EQUILIBRIUM .
So what is health ?
Native american believed in patient-oriented, proactive approach to health and healing that values personal responsibility and self-motivation.
Lifestyle and personal attitudes are the focus to bring about personal transformation and gain mastery over the mind and body.
Where as in Pranic healing founded and promoted by Choa Kok Sui (1952–2007), a Filipino entrepreneur and philanthropist of Chinese descent, claims that prana (energy) can heal ailments in the body by contributing to the person's energy field. Pranic healing is believed to be like acupuncture and yoga in that it treats the "energy body" which in turn affects the "physical body.
The philosophy of Ayurveda looks ,disease /health results from the interconnectedness between the self, personality, and everything that occurs in the mental, emotional, and spiritual being. To be healthy, harmony must exist in thought, feeling and physical action.
Ayurveda is a careful integration of six important Indian philosophical systems, many physical/behavioral sciences, and the medical arts.
Ayurveda deals with
what is good life and bad life,
happiness and misery, that which supports or destroys, and the measurement of life.
It works to heal the sick, to maintain health in the healthy, and to prevent disease in order to promote quality of life and long life.
Health is defined as an experience of bliss/happiness in the soul, mind, and senses. It is the balance of the body’s three governing principles, seven tissues, three wastes, digestion, and other processes such as immune functioning. life is a combination of body, mind, senses, and spirit (more than a mind-body system). Nothing exists but for the pre-existence of and working of a Supreme Intelligence/Consciousness – an elemental, all-powerful, all-pervading spirit-energy that expresses Itself through and in the creation. Ayurveda seeks to know this aspect of life, the subjective (internal) as well as the objective (outer).
The Huang-di Nei-jing or Inner Classic of the Yellow Emperor is one of the oldest known medical texts of Chinese medicine is similar in status and content to the Hippocratic Corpus, the basis of early western medicine. Chinese view of the body as part of nature, resonant and interacting with the forces external to it. Health reflects a balance of internal and external influences. Illness is a manifestation of imbalance.
Native American medicine addresses imbalance on every level of life, from the most personal inner life to the most overt behavior. Disease is not defined by physical pathology, but viewed from an expanded context that includes body, mind, spirit, emotions, social group, and lifestyle.
Native Americans believes that there are endless ways to achieve balance,
like effective treatment is a marriage of a skilled, compassionate practitioner and committed patient. They also believe in equal importance of the patient’s choice to heal. Patients’ preferences are always honored.
Father of homeopathy , German physician Samuel Hahnemann in 1796, claimed that each disease was associated with a particular miasm (hypothetically pathological condition)
This fundamental law of homeopathy requires that the application of a remedy is made from a substance that causes a pattern of illness best matched to the person’s symptoms.
Homeopaths believe treatment that obeys the laws of natural healing (rather than suppressive healing)
Conclusion :
All traditional healing system believed in equilibrium of energy-internall and external factors. Moreover the sytem has to be proactively controlled by the individual .
(hope the discussion helps :)
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